Liberté Chan Instagram – Make sure you soak your legumes (e.g. lentils and beans) before cooking them! It will help with digestion, plus help you absorb minerals like iron and zinc.
Beans and lentils are notoriously difficult to digest because they contain compounds that the human body cannot fully digest. Soaking legumes (and changing out the water several times) can reduce some of the gas-producing carbohydrates and lectins.
Also, the more often you eat legumes, the more your body will adjust and in turn, produce less gas.
A couple of other things you can do to make beans more digestible: sprout them and/or use spices like ginger, cumin and turmeric.
Also, as an added benefit, soaking your legumes reduces the amount of phytic acid which blocks the body from absorbing minerals like iron and zinc. Less phytic acid means you’ll better absorb the nutrients.
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